The door of the blue bus slides open and dozens of children excitedly bound up the steps, eager to get their hands on hard-to-find books in Kabul’s first mobile library. Named Charmaghz — the Dari for walnut, which is associated with logic in Afghanistan because the nut resembles a brain — the converted public bus…

Every morning I like to pursue world news while having my breakfast. I either read the newspaper or just scroll through headlines on my smartphone while sipping my hot mug of tea. But recently this activity has started making me feel depressed. Whether you read about Kashmir or Palestine, Yemen or Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan,…

By: Zara Maqbool No TV dinners? Easier said than done! I work in the afternoon, which allows me an hour or so in which I have to make sure the kids have eaten their lunch, changed their clothes after being back from school and so on. Stressed out due to time I used to give…

The digital library at the Dow University of Health Sciences was officially named after its former Principal Professor Shamsuddin Rahimtoola recently in continuation of an earlier announcement by the University to make different sections of the campus after its former teachers. The announcement was officially made at a condolence meet held at the Arag Auditorium…

KARACHI: Bookworms in Karachi will have a new wonderland to retreat and ponder over things as British Council Library reopened its doors to Karachiites Thursday. The library is located at Shahrah-e-Iran in Clifton and features more than 10,000 books in its shelves. It has reopened after a span of some 15 odd years. A high-end…

SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon on Monday said it will start paying writers of e-books on its Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owner's Lending Library services based on how many pages are read instead of the number of downloads. “We're making this switch in response to great feedback we received from authors who asked us to better align…

NEW DELHI: An academic at one of India's oldest universities said Tuesday women were banned from its main library, as a minister joined the chorus of outrage against the institution for denying access over fears of “distracting” male students. Shadab Bano, assistant professor at the Women's College of the prestigious Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), told…

CHICAGO: A Chicago-area woman wanted to return an overdue copy of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to the Chicago Public Library, but first she wanted to be sure she wouldn't go to jail.That's because the book, a rare limited edition of the Oscar Wilde novel, was checked out in 1934. Harlean Hoffman Vision found it…

ZLITAN: Conservative Islamists blew up the tomb of a 15th century Sufi scholar and burned down a library in the Libyan city of Zlitan, a military official said on Saturday, the latest attacks on sites in the region branded idolatrous by some sects.The attackers used bombs and a bulldozer to destroy a complex of shrines…